I happened to see a few pages written by Savitri Devi in the 1950s:
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Prophetic.
Interesting to note that Savitri Devi [Maximiani Devi Portas] was born 2.5 months prematurely. Premature birth is known to result, in some cases, in the person who has [re]incarnated having psychic powers (cf. St. Paul); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savitri_Devi#Early_years.
Ukraine
Though the “British” and other msm cannot be taken, without more, to be reliable, there have been numerous reports in the past 24 hours of a collapse of the Russian lines in parts of Ukraine east of the Dnieper; perhaps even betokening a general collapse.
‘Russia's northern front line in Ukraine appears to have collapsed, with military chiefs in Kyiv saying the army has recaptured at least 3,000sq km’ pic.twitter.com/opp81ry4m1
'Without Izyum and Kupyansk, Russia cannot effectively supply its forces in the north-east or the east of the country, and so further collapses, withdrawals and surrenders of Russian forces are to be expected’ pic.twitter.com/mWnP34DGKL
‘They may be able to stabilise their lines temporarily, but we have crossed a point of no return. Russia's forces were previously poorly equipped, supplied and of low morale. To that list you can now add terrified of encirclement' pic.twitter.com/vKzIBsYL1X
If Russia is not to be utterly defeated in this war (which would quite likely then see something akin to at least a palace revolution in Moscow), it needs to escalate both numbers and force generally, and to think outside the box, as the leaders of the Reich often did, particularly from 1936 (recovery of the Rhineland) to 1944 (Battle of the Bulge).
If Russia fails to crush the Kiev regime, NATO forces, or NATO-equipped and NWO-controlled Ukrainian forces, will be within 280 miles range of Moscow.
This could be an existential danger not only for Putin but also for the Russian Federation.
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Ukraine suffering from blackouts as troops press counteroffensive against Russia https://t.co/nXU3zldbo2
My maternal great-grandparents were Ukrainian Jews who emigrated to the United States a century ago — fleeing violence and death inflicted by Russians. It’s awesome to see Putin’s ass being whipped now by President Zelenskyy, another Ukrainian Jew. 🇺🇦✡️
🧵🚨#RUSSIA: TVs in #SaintPetersburg have been hacked – all digital channels show a montage starting from 9/11 terror attacks in New York then subtly shift to footage of Putin's terror attacks all over #Ukraine. Very impactful. Key excerpts translated to English below ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/NexGnSSkQC
Who do you think might be behind that? I doubt whether the Kiev regime would be able to do it.
Im not even anti-Ukraine. Im anti-Western influenced Ukraine that leads us to endless war. I can’t control Russia or their politics so there’s no sense in saying anything to them, but I like to think I may be able to sway my reps in DC.
Are they winning suddenly? They make one small gain and you War Shills act as of that haven’t lost thousands of lives and thousands of acres. I stand firm. Ukraine should have negotiated from the beginning rather than fight back. And btw, no one else is fighting back for them.
BREAKING: The Biden administration has announced a $3 billion package to Jackson, Mississippi to fund massive repairs and updates to water infrastructure.
Just kidding. That money is going to weapons for Ukraine.
After all these years of the same msm and governmental bs, we still see tweets or newspaper columns implying that impoverishing the British people supposedly to help backward countries is somehow a “mistake” or “wrong policy”, when it is a quite deliberate part of a plan, the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.
— Stella Assange #FreeAssangeNOW (@Stella_Assange) August 20, 2022
Deborah Key. Imogen Harvey-Key. I can only speak for myself and my daughter but any right thinking individual, who believes in true democracy and freedom of speech, should add their name.
— Deborah Key 💙💙 #DeathByBrexit #NoComradesUnder1K (@princesdeb) August 27, 2022
I am 55. I do not remember the U.K. being in a more desperate state that it is today – and I lived right through Thatcher.
I, aged 23-34 at the time, do not recall the Thatcher years as horribly or exceptionally bad, though many do. I agree with the rest of the tweet, though.
How about removing standing charge, de-linking electric from gas prices, removing VAT, ofgem protecting the consumer rather than the energy companies and the govt strictly regulating these companies as they originally promised. No monopoly should be allowed to fleece the public.
Read that newspaper report and tell me that the 12-month (in reality 5-6 month) sentences on both defendants constitute justice. I am by no means a “hanger and flogger”, and disparage unduly lengthy sentences but, were I the sentencing judge, I should have been thinking in terms of years, not months. Maybe 5 years. Also, if available (I am not up to date on the law) a confiscation order to compensate the abuse victim who (also) had £57,000 stolen from him. I wonder how it was that that theft could even have been allowed to happen. Seems that there might be a systemic problem if that can occur.
I accept that one cannot get a full picture from a newspaper report but surely, on any reading, 12 months, meaning a maximum of 6 months in custody, must be seen as unduly lenient, to say the least.
Some truth in that, but many women who are mothers are neurotic, often highly so, while some childless women are not. Grey area.
‘Why does she want top protect excess profits of oil and gas giants and why is she doing that by borrowing extra and not by taxing oil and has companies more?’
Peymana Assad says Labour are ‘struggling to understand’ PM Liz Truss' approach to solving the energy crisis. pic.twitter.com/4psDAUHait
'There's lots of [wheelchair] users with medical equipment they've got to run. They're looking at seriously increased costs.'
GB News viewer and wheelchair user Jack Milnes discusses how the cost-of-living crisis impacts people living with disabilities. pic.twitter.com/nS7MNPXJ6D
'These are grim figures. 6.8 million…that's the highest number since records began.'
GB News' Katherine Forster reports after new NHS waiting figures reveal that a record 6.8 million people were waiting for treatment at the end of July.
I have never actually watched GB News, except on clips seen on Twitter. The presenters are less —if you prefer, even less— smooth than those seen on BBC, ITV, Sky etc.
I have no idea how many people do watch that channel, but I am quite surprised that it is still going.
🔵 NEW: UK Charity @TrussellTrust is urging new Prime Minister Liz Truss to address the #CostOfLiving as their research found a worrying number of people on benefits are struggling to feed themselves.https://t.co/QaJcgpZLb4
🚗 34% said they have fallen into debt as they couldn’t keep up with essential bills and 23% said they couldn’t afford to use public transport or the cost of fuel to travel to work or travel to essential appointments, or do the school run.#CostOfLivingCrisispic.twitter.com/MkW5rvVjmu
📦 @TrussellTrust revealed #FoodBanks in its network provided 50% more parcels to help people across the UK in recent months, compared to before the pandemic and says the UK Government’s £15 billion support package is no longer enough.https://t.co/KldbbvAicb
🌿 Emma Revie, chief executive at @TrussellTrust, said “The Government must act now to protect people from harm. This means at least doubling the additional support offered to people on the lowest incomes.”https://t.co/QaJcgpZLb4
The death of a longstanding head of state, particularly one viewed for decades as “iconic”, marks a milestone in the history of that state, whatever one’s socio-political views.
Tomorrow, I may offer some more directed thoughts about the near-future direction of the UK. In the meantime, I wish only to say “Vale!“
I remember Bill Bradley from when I lived in New Jersey in the early 1990s. One of those “best President (or Prime Minister)who never made it” figures, like (in the UK) Rab Butler, Enoch Powell etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Bradley.
On the main question here, the Russia-Ukraine situation, we see above a number of figures from, inter alia, the U.S. State Department, the CIA, the British Foreign Office, not to mention the American, Australian and other political establishments, all warning against NATO expansionism and against stoking Ukrainian political and military aggressiveness.
Few of those political and diplomatic figures can be, plausibly, written off as “Russian shills” and the like, as we see all too often written on Twitter and elsewhere, as the unthinking “I stand with Ukraine” mob bay for anything up to and even including nuclear war with Russia.
The disastrous policy of actively supporting the Jew-Zionist kleptocracy in Kiev headed (or figureheaded) by Zelensky is bad enough in itself (and is soon going to result in recession and/or stagflation in the UK and the EU) but, worse than that, may develop into a military situation between NATO and Russia which may then slip or slide into a nuclear conflict which would devastate the UK, much of Europe, the industrialized parts of Russia, and the cities of the USA.
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Andrew Pierce shredded by Ed Balls. Nothing more than a pathetic Tory apologist and hypocrite. Pierce now wants more government borrowing after years of supporting austerity. £2.5trillion national debt. Twelve years of total economic failure.@GMB@toryboypierce@edballs
I may not like moneygrubbing expenses cheat and Bilderberger, Ed Balls, and the same goes (double) for his venal, hypocritical, “refugees welcome” (but not in her own several homes) wife, Yvette Cooper, but it has to be said that Balls is a trained economist, and did criticize at the time the ludicrously wrongheaded “austerity” nonsense put forward by the part-Jews David Cameron-Levita and George Osborne from 2010-2015, a policy which has run Britain threadbare.
#GMB Andrew Pierce ‘Kwasi Kwarteng has a brain the size of a planet’
Says the man who spent nearly three years bullying and blackmailing the Bri oh what’s the point it’s the same shit every single time. https://t.co/dgSjYRkRHh
A salutary tale, and one which I have just reread, this time also reading many of the readers’ comments. Some had had similar experiences.
I was reminded, reading all that, of an experience of my own.
Over twenty years ago (how time flies in this world when one is no longer young), I was invited, with my wife, to the wedding of a friend, and former teacher at a language school where I had been a part-time student in the early 1980s.
I had become very friendly in the late 1980s and early 1990s with Ig, a noted translator of Dostoyevsky; Ig was divorced (from decades before) and lived in a semi-detached house with a large garden, in North Finchley (London outskirts).
Ig worked at a language school near Warren Street, in Central London, an institute where most of the Russian-language faculty were exiles of one sort or another. He himself had been born in Latvia between the world wars; when he was 14, his family fled to Germany, at the end of WW2, and as the Red Army advanced from the East. They had then settled in the UK.
I sometimes enjoyed a drink, and occasionally a curry in Drummond Street (also near Warren Street), with Ig and one or other of his friends, such as “Uncle John”, a divorced fellow whose wife, Alla from Leningrad, was another language teacher of mine at one time, or with Guy Churchill, a pleasant retiree and one-time SAS soldier (during the Malayan Emergency of the 1950s), who had the odd habit (never seen before or since) of breaking the filter tips off his cigarettes before smoking them.
Ig was rather eccentric, and sometimes did things which were very surreal, as when he took me, for no obvious reason, to have tea with the writer, Doris Lessing [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Lessing], at a cafe-bar near the language school. A strange, awkward, rather Kafkaesque experience.
It never occurred to me that Ig, not far off retirement age, might remarry and so compromise his bachelor life of Russo-Soviet culture, beer, and collecting railway clocks (several were in the main room of his house). I was therefore surprised to be invited to his wedding, at a Register Office somewhere on the extension of Edgware Road, far up that road, maybe near Brent Cross (I cannot now exactly recall).
My wife and I attended the short ceremony, and met the bride. She was Russian but had been resident in Latvia, where Ig had met her (not sure where or how; possibly at a bus stop or the like). She was supposedly mid-twenties (my wife thought older), and looked a bit lost amid Ig’s rather grey-haired friends, who included a couple of occasional teachers of mine at that language school, one being a one-time Army linguist (and keeper of goats), another being Gerald Brooke, who had spent 4 years in prison near Moscow before being swapped for the Krogers: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Brooke; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Cohen_(spy); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lona_Cohen.
That was the wedding. Some time later, Ig asked me to take his new wife to lunch at Lincoln’s Inn. She was friendly, pleasant, and told me that she had a law degree from Latvia, maybe Riga.
Scroll forward. My wife and I took on the lease of a large country house, one of the largest in North Cornwall.
We invited Ig and his wife to stay for the weekend. They arrived, but right from the start there was something wrong. For one thing, in a cold autumn, Ig’s wife came in a short dress, no coat, no gloves, perhaps unaware of how cold a large English country house can be, despite large fuel bills (one January, I spent nearly £700 on oil alone; plus coal and firewood. £700, in one month, 20 years ago).
Ig’s wife was actually quite rude from the start, not at all friendly to my wife, treated her like a serf, did not offer any help or whatever (we had the big house, but not any domestic staff as such), and just seemed to be sulking constantly. We assumed that the ill-matched couple had had a spat on the way down.
Anyway, after a weekend which —without going into great detail— tested my wife’s patience to the hilt, and when the pair were almost ready to go home, my wife thought to take some extra towels to their room (the house had originally had 26 bedrooms). She saw that Ig’s new wife’s suitcase was open on the bed; on top of the contents, a silk scarf belong to my wife, from Hermes. Ig’s wife had actually stolen the silk scarf (and other items, including bottles of scent) and placed them in her suitcase. The item were retrieved, and a diplomatic way found to raise the matter with the guest/thief.
Not an entirely successful weekend.
After that, I received calls from Ig’s Russian friends, begging me to think of a way to “save him from that stupid girl, who knows nothing but films and fashion“.
In fact, Ig did try to divorce her, after he overheard her talking to her mother in Riga, and the pair plotting to divorce him and so get half of his quite valuable house. In the end, the divorce never happened, despite preliminary court hearings.
Ig was prevailed upon to change his mind and, looking at that Guardian obit, they seem to have remained married until his death some 11 years later. I hope that the woman was not unkind to Ig in his last years, because he was a good fellow, but I never saw him after the disastrous weekend, and only spoke to him a couple of times when (maybe at her instigation) he wanted to bring her down again to Cornwall. I could not put my wife through that sort of nonsense again, though.
I presume that that woman got his house, I believe worth (in 2013) about £800,000 (and I suppose worth twice that much now), and other financial benefits.
However, not all Russians, Ukrainians etc can be tarred with the same brush. For example, I knew one girl (from Kiev) who was offered marriage by a British diplomat (who became an ambassador only about 2 years later) but refused him.
Many Russians (and, no doubt, Ukrainians too) are very fine people, but they come from a very different cultural and social background than English people. History has been harsh in those regions, and attitudes are fashioned out of such history.
Truss’ Cabinet picks are genuinely terrifying. We must brace for the utter turmoil which is no doubt ahead of us all. It’s going to be a long, dark winter.
The last Cabinet contained only sycophants prepared to ignore Johnson's epic unsuitability for high office. The new one will contain only sycophants prepared to ignore Johnson's epic unsuitability for high office who haven't criticised or upset Liz Truss. It's a narrowing field!
The main surprise is that Nadine Dorries is not there, it being rumoured that she is about to be elevated to the Lords. Well, why not? After all, a woman (Michelle Mone) who faked a “success story” about her insolvent bra company is there, as are several absurd black women, one of whom is only there because her son was killed in a scuffle with white yobs at a bus stop. Just a few examples of the deadheads in the House of Lords (Oona King is another one).
If Truss freezes energy prices but makes working people pay for it rather than the big oil and gas companies, she’s going to be out of office pretty quickly.
In principle, correct, but there is no mechanism, as we have seen in recent years, for the public to be able to dispense with even the most ridiculous Prime Minister, until given an opportunity at a general election.
New Foreign Secretary James Cleverly voted to reduce Corporation Tax 9 times, yet he has voted to cut benefits 23 times.
Not many people know Cleverly advocated scrapping the minimum wage in 2013.
Another humiliation for Britain, having this ridiculous creature as Foreign Secretary, complete with his “degree” in Hospitality Management from West London Poly.
In fact, apart from a couple of years as a sales manager, Cleverly seems not to have had a job for much of his life, unless you include his Territorial Army officer activity. He was never commissioned into the Regular Army, by reason of a supposed leg injury (unspecified); nor is it known whether he dropped out of Sandhurst or other training institution.
A couple more bits of news about the new Cabinet
That little pissant Robert Jenrick, a total puppet of the Jew-Zionist/Israel lobby, has been appointed a Minister of State despite his very “questionable” links to Jew property speculators.
Jewish wife; children brought up as if full-Jew. Completely in the Zionist pocket.
The other news is that ex-officer Johnny Mercer, who seemed like a rare breath of fresh air in the Commons at first (but who, disappointingly, turned out to be a moneygrubber, at least from what I have read), has been kicked out of Government, and his wife, seeing the extra salary etc disappearing up the chimney, is livid.
Prime Minister Liz Truss has been branded an "imbecile" by the wife of sacked minister Johnny Mercer.
Felicity Cornelius-Mercer said the cabinet system “stinks” and “treats people appallingly” after her husband was removed as veterans affairs minister.https://t.co/ghjIelYWOG
I suppose that Mercer was hoping against hope to be appointed at some later stage as Defence Secretary, though his “bring it on!” rhetoric about nuclear war with Russia hardly inspired confidence in his judgment.
As for Mercer’s wife, Felicity, of whom I knew nothing until today, I award her 9 out of 10 for honesty, 1 out of 10 for diplomacy, and another 9 out of 10 for making my day more amusing.
You see that sort of thing all the time on Twitter— a cavalcade of talking heads, supposed “comedians”, sports talking heads etc, all paying lip-service to the BBC which, in most cases, pays them. Sickening homage to patronage.
Look at that Sweet bastard (whoever he is). Begging for state censorship.
It was this @bobscartoons cartoon which the complainant took offence to. This is, from my perspective, a valid representation of school curricular overemphasis these days. But the point is that @WHSmith should be selling the FULL spectrum of opinion for us. Not choosing for us. pic.twitter.com/nKGeVI6ZLH
@kerr649, @louisemensch has never forgiven me for a long-ago column item in which I laughed at the way she wandered in and out of New Labour back in the 1990s, when she was still writing chick-lit. I actually agreed to meet her to discuss it. https://t.co/eXpofp8ZWw
Louise Mensch. A blast from the past, now just a washed-up, divorced Twitter twit who, after I was —both wrongfully and unlawfully— disbarred in 2016, actually tweeted directly to me, threatening (ignorantly) to have me disbarred in New York as well. Never heard anything more about it.
Louise Mensch was, inter alia, a drug abuser, and admitted that her drug abuse “messed up her head“. A rock “music” “groupie” at one time long ago (when at University), who became, at least metaphorically, an Israel- lobby “groupie” later.
So only 22% of people are at all pleased that Liz Truss is or is about to be Prime Minister (once rubberstamped by the Queen). Not such a surprise, in view of the fact that the voters have not been asked to vote on this. At least, only those voters who are Conservative Party members, i.e. about 1 in every 500 people, of which only just over half voted for Liz Truss.
Liz Truss has therefore been voted for by about one person out of every 900 people. Not much of a mandate.
Even most of those who normally vote for Conservative Party candidates are not pleased about this— a mere 41% of those voters.
Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan in operation
“For the first time in Britain’s history, there will not be a white man in one of the four great offices of state.” [The Guardian]
LEAST WE FORGET what the Tories have done, this being amongst the worse – & after public outcry they gave water companies until 2050 to reduce sewage dumping thro infrastructure & the right to increase our bills to pay for the work.https://t.co/yUJIju123v via @MetroUK
Tory false populism and failed energy policies: shelved the nuclear strategy of the last Labour govt, sold off gas storage facilities, failed to push renewables adequately, abandoned the home insulation programme.#newsnightpic.twitter.com/S8R5xdEGqL
— Alan M – Square One is underrated💙 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 🇪🇺 (@am1874northwich) September 5, 2022
More on Ukrainian “refugees” in the UK—
“Why I’m glad to see the back of my Ukrainian refugee“
“As Olena’s luggage once again filled half of my downstairs corridor, ready to be loaded into the car that would ferry her to her new accommodation, I could hardly wait to see the back of her.”
I suggest that all well-meaning and/or virtue-signalling mugs thinking of hosting such guests read that Daily Mail article before buying into a pack of trouble.
Another point is that most of Ukraine is not a war zone in reality, not yet anyway. With the exception of part of the Black Sea coastal belt, and the odd military base, almost anywhere west of the Dnieper is not under attack, and that is well over half of the country. The same is true (so far) of the majority of territory east of the Dnieper.
In all, about three quarters of Ukraine is pretty safe and life is continuing in a relatively normal fashion, bearing in mind the overall situation of conflict, and the fact that Ukraine is not a real state at all but a failed, shambolic, corrupt, crime-ridden kleptocracy, run by a Jew cabal.
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Yes @jonboyjon1976 I am supporting his freedom of speech and opposing the government’s lawless use of arbitrary punishment against him. I regard this as my civic duty. Do you * oppose* freedom of speech or support arbitrary punishment? https://t.co/iPbTPYyhb0
@robertchallis. As I’ve written in The Mail on Sunday, I regard it as wrong. I don’t know which law might make it illegal,but in that case punishment should follow arrest, charge, trial and conviction.We call this due process. What I am protesting against is arbitrary punishment. https://t.co/ulFkvyydGz
Tweeter “Gerard” must be a complete idiot. Look at a. the population numbers for Russia and Ukraine, then b. at the full military and/or destructive power available to both; then c. at the economic strength of both.
I certainly do not advocate this, but what does tweeter “Gerard” think would happen if Putin landed a nuclear bomb on Kiev?
Political ambition is a dangerous thing. Those in its grip are often deluded by beliefs which bear little relation to reality. Nobody should go into politics until they have raised children to adulthood, or fought in a war, or run their own business. Or something of that sort. https://t.co/59Zdf6s2x0
The free market is a liberal obsession, and has been ripping through Communist China fur decades . There is nothing conservative about such crude money-worship. Conservatism values the family, the little platoons, tradition and permanence, not unending waves of greed. https://t.co/d5qvwrLbwE
The obese Therese Coffey, the new Health Secretary.
This is how u know NOTHING is going to change.
The NHS is a repair & accident service, it is not a healthy lifestyle service. A Health secretary shd have a handle on what a constitutes a healthy life.https://t.co/DSMilJORP8
I have not listened to LBC joke radio since about 1976, but I see that irascible radio loudmouth Nick Ferrari (pro-Jewish lobby drone) has today referred to “Boris”-idiot as “a supremely successful leader“. Just one example of the unreality that pervades the UK’s msm.
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Eddie Izzard
Intentionally or not, Eddie Izzard shows how supposedly intelligent people will go along with anything if they think that’s the approved opinion. pic.twitter.com/FMcqVImrvR
A not-very-funny (because it could just happen) piece of political satire.
In the circumstances mooted, only a [self-censored…] of the evil in society would cleanse this country.
Eddie Izzard is a man who enjoys wearing make up & feminine clothes. That’s entirely his choice. However it doesn’t mean he is a woman, any more than my cropped hair, jeans & lack of lipstick make me a man. Please don’t reinforce regressive stereotypes with incorrect pronoun use
I applaud Eddie Izzard's courage in becoming the Screaming Lord Sutch of our generation. We've long needed a hilarious spoof candidate to remind us our politics is broken. pic.twitter.com/bSRn2TMEzs
Proof that this society, at least in large parts (which means overall, really) is broken. Many people are so confused about reality that they cannot distinguish male from female, good from bad, decent behaviour from mere virtue-signalling, and social cohesion from fake communitarian nonsense (such as the brainwashed plebs of 2020, “clapping for the NHS” on order, or under social pressure, outside their dwellings).
The Labour Party is especially infected with socio-political disease.
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Therese Coffey who hid 9 reports that apparently detailed wrong doings and cruelty in her last department is Health Secretary, Deputy PM – She is also best friends with Truss. https://t.co/XOoGOZRljv
There is no real democracy in the UK, just a rigged electoral system designed expressly to maintain a mere facade of democracy while, in reality, providing the voters with a fake and basically binary Con/Lab “choice” leading to an ultimately-similar result no matter which party “wins”.
Ken Clarke on BBCr4today said that the UK is heading into a deep long lasting recession even worse than the one Ted Heath's govt created. National Debt is 100% the equivalent of GDP – only ever happens when the Tories are the govt. Some party of FISCAL RESPONSIBILTY.
Free money for “Covid” “panicdemic” nonsense, free money for the regime of the Jew dictator Zelensky, free money for migrant-invaders and hoteliers, free money for MPs, free money and tax cuts for speculators, but poverty and suffering for most of the British people.
PAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
She voted for 70 million people to be placed under potentially fatal house arrest, for no reason, multiple times.
What the fucking hell do you think she's going to do to defend the 'principles of liberty'? https://t.co/pR4sBvl8qF
…and the “BLM” “useful idiots” talk about “cultural appropriation” by white Europeans! Of course, the blacks are just being used by the “you know whos” (((you know whos))). “They” are those who infest the world of TV, film and radio (and the Press), not the blacks.
Late thought
I saw a minute or so of the public valete of “Boris”-idiot in Downing Street. Pathetic. Entirely expected. Pitiful, really.
There was the usual back-of-postcard “classical” reference (to Cincinnatus— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Quinctius_Cincinnatus), in order to remind the public that Johnson was at Eton and Oxford, and the usual pathetic jokes, this time mainly about how Johnson saw himself as a “booster” (rocket) to get Liz Truss into orbit. To my mind, more like a “booster” (injection) that poisons and kills the recipient. Anyway, as far as I know, only former MP Mark Field has been able to get Liz Truss into orbit, and she very quickly fell to Earth in the muddy fields of South West Norfolk.
It seems that Therese Coffey, the appalling woman presently Secretary of State for the DWP, is likely to be appointed Secretary of State for Health (assuming a Liz Truss premiership— we shall know about that later today).
Good grief. Thick half-caste James Cleverly as Foreign Secretary?! What an incredible embarrassment and humiliation for this country, even after Liz Truss…
The others mooted? Well, we have as mooted Chancellor of the Exchequer, Kwasi Kwarteng, the “African at Eton”, who said, in a book he co-authored with others (including Liz Truss), that “Once they enter the workplace, the British are among the worst idlers in the world.” See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britannia_Unchained; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwasi_Kwarteng.
Incidentally, that book was written by 5 MPs, of whom only 2 (Liz Truss, Chris Skidmore) are full European, the others being Kwasi Kwarteng (Ghanaian origin), Priti Patel (East African Indian origin), Dominic Raab (half-Jew).
Then we have Ben Wallace, Defence Secretary since 2019 on the strength of having been a captain in the Scots Guards. Seems to think (after a few whiskys) that the now-pitiful British armed forces can take on Russia (in a nuclear war?) and “win”.
Wallace’s actual words were to the effect that the Scots Guards had “kicked the [backside]” of Nikolai I of Russia in the Crimean War (about 170 years ago) and could do it again.
Let us hope that Wallace stays off the whisky, in case he confuses 1852 with 2022 and then, while a little too merry, tries to kick Putin’s nuclear backside.
“Culture— Nadine Dorries“. Need one say more?
“Security— Tom Tugendhat“. Really? The part-Jew former desk soldier whose wife is a politically-connected French judge, while Tugendhat (a fervent pro-Israel drone, closely connected to the Jewish lobby in the UK) is himself a French citizen (dual French-British citizenship). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Tugendhat.
Nadhim Zahawi? He emulates the limpet. He blagged his corrupt, expenses-cheating, tax-evading way into Cabinet under “Boris”-idiot, and he will be clinging onto office no matter what.
Most of the rest on that list can be best described as deadheads and idiots.
Such a Cabinet, at such a time? The auguries cannot be favourable.
Basically, “Boris” Johnson appointed to his Cabinet those MPs with more interest in office than their own self-respect. The dregs, pretty much. What we now see is a new Cabinet which can be described as the dregs of the dregs.
Rather telling, though weakened near the end by a would-be-respectful nod to the Ukrainian woman married to the Jew dictator, Zelensky. Hard to feel sorry for a woman who, with her corrupt husband, owns at least two villas in the sun (in Italy and in Florida), one of which is apparently worth USD $40 million.
Not only does it feed and shelter sealife and buffer the coast against storms, it absorbs carbon dioxide in the same way as land forests do pic.twitter.com/7TemDDN1I7
🗣️“Seaweed is the gift that keeps on giving,” says the Seaweed Alliance, a group set up in 2019 to support a burgeoning industry. It is fast-growing, sustainable and “has amazing properties”
In the 19th century it was used to make iodine and in the 1970s it went into hydrocolloids, a gelling agent for ice cream, salad dressing and jelly. One hydrocolloid, alginate, is used to thicken toothpaste
An interesting report, which hits a few points or questions many of the ultra-wealthy preppers written about may have considered but not resolved. For example, once there is an existential disaster in society, once your money (whether gold coins, bank deposits, or Bitcoin etc ) is worthless, how can you ensure the loyalty of your security force?
The snake-oil salesman becomes a gin salesman. Well, I suppose that, after all, that other —sort-of— smoothie, Ribbentrop, sold Champagne at one time…
Strange to think that, as recently as (?) 5 years ago, some people saw this egregious example of “controlled opposition” as a potential prime minister. Having said that, and after “Boris”-idiot and now Liz Truss, Farage seems relatively straightforward and capable! Our national life now must lie somewhere between Nietzsche and Kafka.
I shall not be trying Farage’s alcoholic product any more than I would his political products; I have never once tasted gin, and I do not think that I shall start now.
“The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China” tells of two Iraqi Jewish families of business magnates, the Sassoons and Kadoories, who dominated Chinese life for almost 200 years until the advent of Communism.” https://t.co/bcuXLKCCdD
In a CDC survey of over 13,000 children, more than 55 percent of the subjects between the ages of 6 months and two years had a “systemic reaction” in response to their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna #COVID19 vaccines, the CDC said.https://t.co/gPzM5RRiXR
If anyone wants inspiration to take action now, not later. Watch this clip from @drstevejames (who was pivotal in ending vaccine mandates) expressing his regret for not standing up earlier, when it was affecting care home workers but not NHS staff, yet.#together@Togetherdecpic.twitter.com/Od5BsyNSKA
Part 2: Yes, they've been to 'the market' to seek alternative quotes. No other provider will even quote for their business. Not a single one. We need urgent action by govt to address what is, in reality, a monopoly not a market.
Off to the Lords as a cushy, and remunerative, reward for her repeated embarrassing public failures in the service of undying loyalty to her master.
Rarely has there been a career that is more emblematic of the failure of the British state than that of Nadine Dorries.#Newsnighthttps://t.co/lMN6rbJFvM
— I Am Incorrigible also on Bluesky, threads & masto (@ImIncorrigible) September 5, 2022
2/ Declining water levels on the Rhine River due to a drought in Europe have left German power producers warning of lower output amid coal supply snags, according to a Bloomberg report.🚢📉
4/ German utility companies EnBW AG and Trianel GmbH each reported supply issues, with the former warning of a cut in power generation, according to Bloomberg.📊⚡️
8/ According to a Reuters report, the German government warned last week that logistics problems on the river could mean coal storage sites in southern Germany will probably not be filled by winter.📊📉
There was no need for sanctions against Russia, which hit Germany and the rest of Europe harder than they do Russia. Russia still stands ready to supply gas to Europe, but we cannot expect Russia to sit still while it is literally under attack by Western arms and ammunition supplied to the Kiev regime.
As to the water levels in the Rhine, let’s see what happens over the cooler months.
[Rhine]
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Albanians control most of the cocaine trade in the UK, a significant proportion of the heroine and vice trades and around 80% of the firearms trafficking. The amount of harm being done by Albanian organised criminality cannot be overestimated. It’s massive. @GBNEWS@markwhiteTVhttps://t.co/4zfrvJ01cb
Just get rid of them, either out of the UK, or generally and permanently. The present System parties are not going to do either, of course.
I happened to be watching one of those police “reality” shows recently. They raided a house turned into a cannabis farm, and caught an Albanian who was apparently minding the crop for others higher up the food chain. He was charged, prosecuted, and pleaded guilty to “possession with intent to supply” the drug. His sentence? One year. Meaning out in 6 months. The police, CPS, and judiciary might as well not bother, and so save the State the money for [play-] acting in this farce. Alternatively, eliminate the criminal and anyone associated with him. In fact, the lot.
People have had their rights removed, children have been tortured, forced medical experiments carried out, people have been othered, persecuted, rounded up and put into camps. Millions have been intentionally killed.
But if you’re concerned about any of this, you’re antisemitic.
Fullfact was founded by Michael Samuel of the banking family. His wife is a godparent to Prince George and her sister was married to Amschel Rothschild.
Well, I once again trounced political journalist John Rentoul this week. 6/10 as against his 1/10 or, as he prefers, one-and-three-quarters out of ten. I did not know the answers to questions 1, 7, 9, and 10.
I “really”, in the back of my mind, knew no. 10, and —had I thought about it— might have got no.7 too. Still, there it is. I am OK with 6/10 this week.
It does cross my mind as to why the public should pay heed to John Rentoul when he cannot do better than he usually does in these weekly quizzes. I suppose that he specializes in politics, but can you really do that without a good general knowledge base?
As we know, Britain and France gave Poland a worthless guarantee, so that when Germany invaded Poland on 1 September 1939, the two guarantors declared war on the Reich (on 3 September 1939), despite being entirely unable to take offensive action of any sort.
Britain and France turned a blind eye to the simultaneous Soviet invasion of Poland from the East.
The following 8-9 months was known in the UK as the Phoney War or Bore War (the first fatal casualty on the British side occurred over three months after the declaration of war), and on the German side as Sitzkrieg (“Sitting War”).
If only an honourable armistice could have been made between Germany and Britain either in 1939 or 1940, thus saving at least Western and Central Europe from several years of death, misery and destruction.
The same could be said of the situation in late 1914.
The failure of diplomacy and political leadership in 1939-40 resulted not only in the following years of war, but in what happened in the decades after 1945— population displacement, environmental degradation, premature decolonization, wars and civil wars (eg in Africa), not to mention Eastern, and part of Central, Europe crushed under Soviet rule for half a century.
Now we once more stand before such a situation: a non-state or “failed state”, Ukraine, being supported —pointlessly— from the rear by Western states —particularly USA and UK— , without thought to what might happen if Russia tires of it all and launches a terrifying and world-changing strategic nuclear attack on the West. It could happen. Europe would then have to start over, and rebuild from a very low point.
The best any British person can hope for is that the migrant-invaders will be just useless, and a deadweight millstone round the necks of the British people. That is the best hope. Forget fantasies of how any of them will be some great gift to us, or that they will be brain surgeons, scientists etc. If they are not violent criminals or terrorists, be grateful. I suppose. Or get rid of them.
Africa goes to Washington. Anyone not “agreeing” with the people in power is an “extremist”, and so an enemy. Goodbye, USA…
Truss starts in a political vulnerable position:
— there are few Truss diehard MPs — many more enemies on backbenches — MPs already talking about letters — some who were expected to leave politics are now sticking around sensing it might all blow uphttps://t.co/JNrGeJOsr5
If that silly woman makes it beyond the end of the year, I shall be surprised, and if she is still PM in April 2023, I shall be astonished.
The political situation at present is that, after three years of shambolic “leadership” by part-Jew/Levantine “Boris”, the Conservative Party is imploding before our eyes. In our rigged binary First Past the Post system, that automatically favours the otherwise despised fake Opposition, Labour.
The absurd LibDems will now probably survive solely because there are millions of people who will never vote Labour but who are now completely disenchanted with the Conservative Party. The LibDems are an easy option for those semi-floating voters, not least because the LibDems threw away all principle in 2010 to form the Con Coalition.
Despite what the opinion polls are now saying, I cannot see Labour forming a majority government.
I was interested to see that Labour may stand down candidates in many seats where Labour usually comes third or fourth. A tactic to help the LibDems.. A tacit admission that both Labour and Con are no longer “national” parties in the old sense. They are both persona non grata in different parts of (even) England and Wales, let alone Scotland.
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The DDR (East Germany). As I have blogged previously, a strange state, a kind of facade of a state rather than a real one, as it seemed to me in a couple of summer days in 1988. Yet that state, which vanished in a puff of smoke only a year or so later, was more substantial in some ways than we in the UK usually thought.
I suppose that, growing up in the Cold War era of the 1960s and 1970s, one tended to think of East Germany as being mainly the East Berlin of The Spy Who Came In From The Cold or Funeral in Berlin.
East Berlin, and the Wall, tended to be thought of as looming hugely, not only over Berlin itself, but also over the hard-to-visualize rest of the DDR.
In fact, the DDR, though not huge, and small compared to West Germany, was itself not a very small country; almost half the size of the UK, and about 90% of the size of England.
The DDR was too small a state to engage in autarky. It had no choice but to ride alongside the Soviet Union (and the rest of COMECON). The new Germany is different. more than one and a half times the size of the UK (about 3x the size of England).
What is holding back Germany, psychologically, is the legacy of 1945, the huge destruction and hurt caused by complete military defeat.
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In interviews with The Times, President Levits, the head of state, and Artis Pabriks, the defence minister, also warned European partners against weakening their resolve to face down Moscow because of economic hardship, war fatigue and energy prices https://t.co/GUFzOroWkf
Pabriks, 56, also the deputy prime minister, went further, saying the West had encouraged President Putin by holding back because of exaggerated fears that Moscow might be provoked into a nuclear attack https://t.co/2K3S6LHP0t
The President of Latvia, Levits, a half-Jew, is obviously trying to expand the war. Strange, when Latvia would be one of the first countries to be flattened by any major new or expanded war in the region.
One can see what is quite likely to happen: the military aid to the Kiev regime will be increased, with better and newer weapons, ammunition and training. The Ukrainian/Kiev regime side will then advance, and will attack Crimea and mainland Russian borderlands.
At that point, Russia may respond with a wave of tactical nuclear weapons. From then on, Europe and the Western world would be in uncharted waters.
So the Jew Zelensky has an Italian villa, as well as a USD $40 Million one in Florida? He has certainly not wasted his few years as President of the Ukrainian fake state (or failed state).
We should never stop pointing out that the most heinously barbaric, murderous and undemocratic policies implemented by Johnson, or any other PM in our history, were fully endorsed by James O'Brien. https://t.co/boyg6ZI4mu
👇Johnson didn’t want Ukraine & Russia to agree on a peace deal framework in April. He wanted hostilities to continue so he could carry on posing as Churchill, ward off a leadership challenge & use the war as an excuse for sky high prices rises which were already in the pipeline. https://t.co/ebsPN45wPb
Yes. The attack on white Britain and its way of life is relentless.
We need to ditch the old, outdated ‘left’ ‘right’ divisions & terminology & realise that the most important division today is globalist/non-globalist. All our major parties today are globalist. They follow global agendas, not national ones. They only pretend to be ‘patriotic’.
I have been saying that for years, indeed for decades.
As part of the elite's Great Reset "Build Back Worse" agenda, the war on motorists is entering a much nastier, totalitarian phase. Drivers will need to get a permit to enter certain areas at certain times, with permits only available to selected groups. https://t.co/AfCxkkeV7c
Not sure I agree with the second sentence of tweeter “Jim Smith”. Even 22 years ago, Oxford seemed to have a bad traffic (and parking) problem. I picked up an American lady at the railway station (where there was effectively no parking beyond extremely short-term), in order to take her to Herefordshire. Very fraught and congested, and the traffic in and around the central part of the town was pretty bad, certainly compared to what it was like in the 1980s.
Died of an unexpected sudden illness. 32 years old. Excess death is up. More people are dying now than during 2020 when coronavirus was the biggest concern. What in the heck is happening? https://t.co/aEVnfA5iUu
🔴Despite Ukraine having recaptured a number of villages previously under Russian control, their well-equipped enemies are not fleeing without a fight, Ukrainian soldiers said pic.twitter.com/91s6dHniI0
Western analysts monitoring the conflict say Ukraine is achieving its tactical objectives of improving their long-term positions on the southern frontline.
Holden graduated from the LSE in 2007, at age 22, with a degree in Government and History. Unlike most Conservative (and Labour) MPs, he had spent some time in “the real world”, having worked part-time during his LSE years as a waiter and barman.
After graduation, Holden worked in a number of Conservative Party and SpAd jobs, before being elected at North West Durham in 2019.
North West Durham was a Labour seat from 1950, when the seat was reconstituted, to 2019.
Despite the above, and bearing in mind the cost of living crisis, and the economic catastrophe left after the “panicdemic” etc, it will take a Herculean effort for Holden to retain the seat, despite Labour’s general slide in the area in the past several years, especially if labour select someone other than Laura Pidcock.
1/2 Can't we @zoepaulanet? I thought all that stuff had been discredited. Hillary just lost because she was a bad candidate. Whereas Jack Matlock, former US amassador to Moscow, agrees that USA backed the putsch which overthrew Ukraine's legit government in 2014. https://t.co/0c8H4pQuW5
2/2 @zoepaulanet. Russia could break up into several pieces if the Moscow state grows too weak to hold it together. Ukrainian allegiance to a hostile power could do that. This was a German foreign policy aim in the early 20th century, I think. https://t.co/0c8H4pQuW5
.@agurulyov. People with independent minds decide for themselves what English transliteration they use for the names of foreign cities, and decline to be pressured by lobbyists, or insulted by verbal thugs, into changing their behaviour. https://t.co/ixhglM13Ge
In fact, only brainwashed “morons” (meaning here, “stupid people”), and/or equally mindless fans of the Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev, use “Kyiv” or, indeed, “Keev” (the BBC’s absurd new version).
As far as I am concerned, “Peking” and “Bombay” are also still places, as are “Calcutta” and “Florence”.
I am content to stick with the version used for a thousand years— Kiev.
This miniature ecosystem has been thriving in an almost completely isolated state since 1960. It has been watered just once in that time. pic.twitter.com/VvupErLIqn
"What most failed nations need, and can't work out how to get, is trust & the rule of law. Without these things (which Britain has, but foolishly does not treasure), Russia turned fr one kind of slum into another kind of slum. And..,it turned fr one kind of tyranny into another."
Thank you @Hussain73281269 The whole understanding of the rule of law in our society is fading . If people don't *show* mercy and insist on justice for others, how can they expect to get these things themselves when they need them? https://t.co/UQdW40YuuM
I sympathize with Hitchens as to the rule of law, but I want to keep the numbers of non-Europeans in the UK generally to a minimum. The exact case is just a tiny part of a whole problem.
Weird things are happening…
▪️Over 10 000 non-covid related excess deaths in Europe in just 1 week.
▪️Birthrate has mysteriously collapsed all over the world at the same time.
▪️Young healthy people suddenly dying of "sudden adult death syndrome".
The part-Jew/Levantine poseur, chancer, liar, and fantasist really has run out of road. Wants people facing extra costs running into thousands of pounds to “save £10 a year” by buying a new or better kettle (itself costing £20+).
Johnson has proven time and again his total unfitness for any office. His schoolboy “plans” (fantasies) for garden bridges, bridges over the Irish Sea, artificial islands with Metropolis airports or spaceports on them, “levelling-up” (with not a single policy to do that), have all disappeared in puffs of smoke.
Johnson has proven his sheer inability to do the job of a Prime Minister in terms of actual intellectual capability; he has also proven his craven inability to at least appear to be courageous, refusing to be interviewed by the heavyweights such as Andrew Neil and Jeremy Paxman, hiding in a refrigerator during the 2019 General Election and, more recently, hiding in Kiev and Rwanda as his premiership crashed and burned.
What will be his “legacy”? Either nothing, or the memory of a time when complete fantasy and fabrication ruled at Downing Street, or the prospect of economy and society destroyed by the “panicdemic” “measures”.
That is if we are lucky. If we are unlucky, nuclear war with a country, Russia, that has 100x our nuclear-destructive ability; a war for which there is no reason at all, and which, if it were to happen, would come about for no reason at all other than Idiot’s wish to have supportive headlines after throwing arms and money at the Jew dictator Zelensky.
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This idiot talks about their 'very limited' toolbox:
Field hospitals. Army. Nightingales. Civilian volunteers. Retired clinical volunteers. Cheap, safe, effective treatments. Responsible triage for symptomatic patients. Limited testing. Maintaining public calm.
Fraser Nelson is a slimy pseudo-“Conservative” greaseball, who deserves a good kicking.
I've given up on @FraserNelson ..Judging by the contents of the #Spekkie of late , he's given up on truth and reason and gone full out in pursuit of a #Knighthood… 🤣❤️🇬🇧🙉🙊🙈🖕🥓🍻🦎™️
I happened to see this menu from the House of Commons:
The MPs almost literally have their snouts in the trough, and at heavily-subsidized prices— at the same time as so many people are going hungry and (once the weather cools, from this coming weekend) cold as well.
The House of Lords offers its members similar if not better fare, also at rock-bottom prices. A friend of mine often dined there, though many years ago, and told me all about it. In those days, roast salmon, with all trimmings, was about £2 or £3, I think.
In fact, it is reminiscent of the old “Kremlyovsky Payok” (“Kremlin ration”), a system of both free and heavily-subsidized food rations originating in the 1920s, and which expanded under Stalin to become a whole system of (some) free food, and special shops with either subsidized or generally unobtainable food and other items, sourced both from within the Soviet Union and from outside. Ground coffee, for example.
The Kremlyovsky payok was the highest level, awarded to members of the Politburo and other very high-ranking persons, but there were more modest yet still worthwhile “rations” (and other items) available to anyone who was a member of the “nomenklatura“, such as GRU officers down to the rank of major.
In Kazakhstan, where I lived in 1996-1997, Army personnel still got a payok of that sort at that time; I recall that my “landlord”, a Russian colonel in the Kazakhstan Army (ex-Soviet Army; I became very friendly with him, his wife, and their youngest child, who all lived not far from me) received a large sack of grain and a lot of tinned goods regularly.
That system extended (in Soviet days) to —in effect— private hospitals, vacation “sanatoria” (hotels with a health and fitness aspect), and access to foreign (and usually better) domestic equipment such as refrigerators, ovens, washing machines etc.
A few extremely valued people (such as Mikhail Sholokhov, the writer of The Quiet Don, aka Quiet Flows the Don— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Quiet_Flows_the_Don; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Sholokhov), and the holder of numerous awards, including 6 awards of the Order of Lenin and 2 awards of Hero of Socialist Labour, were even allowed “open bank accounts”, which meant that they could go to a bank and be given effectively any amount of money they wanted (Soviet roubles only, of course), whenever they liked.
Continuing facemask nonsense
Four Covid mRNA doses, recently recovered from Covid, walking outdoors away from people. For the love of science and humanity, please remove the mask.pic.twitter.com/9vNqE57Iir
Biden has at least the excuse that he is, or is said to be, somewhat demented.
I went to Waitrose yesterday evening (it being the only actual supermarket for miles), and noticed a woman walking to her car in the car park— alone, in the sun and a slight breeze, yet masked.
For some people, wearing one of those stupid masks or muzzles has become a kind of “I can prove that I really exist” virtue-signal, or a flag of allegiance to some sort of fake communitarian “clap for the NHS” club.
Those cranks must have hated it when shops were allowed to reopen without subjecting their customers (that’s customers, not prisoners) to the whole soulless and pointless rigmarole of “social distancing”, the facemask nonsense —“would you pull up your mask please!“— and the rest of it all, monitored by shop staff suddenly given petty power (but who now have to return to stacking shelves and helping the shoppers rather than corralling them).
The loonies or semi-loonies still wearing their (completely useless) facemasks remind me of the Japanese soldiers on Pacific islands, still fighting the war in 1980, not having understood that it finished in 1945, and then realizing (?) that they had just been wasting their time doing something rather stupid.
The result of a number of factors, among which are mass immigration, births to non-whites (causing an increase of maybe 10 millions in the past two decades), and the politically-driven sell-off of local authority homes (from the mid-1980s onward).
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The USA backed a violent putsch which overthrew Ukraine’s lawfully elected ( and non-aligned) government, and replaced it with an unconstitutional pro-NATO regime. Call me old-fashioned, but I regard that as an act of aggression. So would you, if Russia did the same. https://t.co/IklugSqJFF
As for the USA, whatever one might say in mitigation, it has attacked, or bombed, or engaged in warfare in, a huge number of countries even since 1945, including Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, various other countries of Latin America, Grenada, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Lebanon etc.
I have no idols, sweetie. I am a Protestant Christian and worship only God. Do you know any real history? https://t.co/CrjtIQ2Zee
The tweeter “@ThePFofJudea”, as Hitchens implies (I think) has apparently confused William Joyce, aka “Lord Haw Haw” [shown above, when young, in the 1920s or early 1930s], with Adolf Hitler, merely because Joyce also sports a small moustache. Note the slashed face, a result of a politically-motivated attack on Joyce in 1924.
Actually when FDR and Churchill appeased the murderous and authoritarian Stalin in 1945, none of this happened. Appeasement secured 50 years of prosperity and peace in Western Europe, and Stalin’s regime eventually fell, mainly because it could not match that prosperity. https://t.co/Z7t0LgT2wm
We even gave him Poland, supposedly the reason we went into the war in the first place.
— Global Village Counterinsurgent (@handles78892211) August 30, 2022
“No-one can rule guiltlessly” [Saint-Just].
1/2 @amb8819 You need to go back to the Wolfowitz Doctrine and to Brzezinski's Grand Chessboard. Wolfowitz believed that any resurgence by Russia must be smashed, Brzezinski that if Ukraine was seduced from neutrality to NATO membership , Russia would effectively be destroyed. https://t.co/7GKyUa5lm5
2/3 You also need to read Kagan here https://t.co/ykDvkKDMLJ , in which he admits Russia was provoked. Probably the cranking up the Ukraine crisis after 2014 was a response to Russia blocking US policy in Syria. https://t.co/7GKyUa5lm5
3/.3 @amb8819 It may make you *happy* to assume I am a defender of the invasion, but it won't help you understand anything, as I not only despise the invasion as an act, but regard it as a stupid mistake. He had a choice. I wonder who was happiest when he took it. https://t.co/7GKyUa5lm5
Putin had no real choice, but his decision must have assumed, evidently mistakenly, that Russian military intelligence (the GRU) and the Russian Army (both on the ground and in the General Staff or, to use an old term, the Stavka) was up to the job, competent. Not so, it seems to have been proven.
This is a potentially existential crisis for Russia as anything purporting to be an independent state, let alone a regional power (the “superpower” label having been lost except in terms of nuclear weapons).
Russia cannot lose this war. By that, I mean that Putin cannot afford to lose this war.
The Russian side is now proposing peace talks. The Ukrainian or Kiev-regime side has refused, saying that only the “return” of Crimea (historically, usually part of Russia rather than Ukraine) and the Donbass etc can be the precondition for talks.
Russia will never accept that Crimea, especially, and its almost entirely Russian population, be given , or “returned”, to the Kiev government.
The present situation is worrying even for those who live far from Ukraine. There is a mob, of the malicious and/or idiotic, baying for Russian blood, and for war with Russia, in effect. I wonder what a Venn diagram would look like if it contained that Twit-mob and also the similar mobs who wanted war with Iraq and then Afghanistan?
If the present limited “Ukrainian” counter-offensive in the south succeeds, and the Kherson pocket or bulge is eliminated, Russia may start to attack, more heavily than heretofore, Odessa, other cities, and Kiev itself.
There is a danger of huge escalation here. The Kiev regime is being supplied with more and more and better, more powerful, arms. Not only arms but money, food, medicines etc. Supplied by the West, but mainly from the USA and UK.
Without those arms, without that money, the failed state of Ukraine could not exist at all. It has almost no exports, its industrial areas are inoperative, or ablaze, or under Russian control. Millions of its wealthier and/or better-educated citizens are in exile. Within Ukraine, the Zelensky regime has shot or imprisoned opponents without trial, or after neo-Stalinist quick “trials”; it has banned trade unions and all opposition parties, and there is no freedom of speech.
In short, Zelensky, like his shambolic and corrupt “government”, is a “monkey on a stick”. This is a Punch and Judy show.
Having said that, if it is true that Russia’s forces are faltering, if it is true that Russia’s supply of heavy weapons to the war is slowing, then that may leave Putin and his top people with an incentive to escalate the war beyond anything yet seen. That in turn might provoke a NATO response. If that were to happen, European civilization, in Europe, itself might be in peril.
Pubs, fish and chip shops and the rest are being driven to the wall on purpose. The destruction is intentional. However hard to accept – it's the simplest explanation.
Look at the UK. Ten years ago, even five years ago, look on, eg, Rightmove, and you saw numerous English or Scottish country estates for sale, some with thousands of acres. Now? Nothing, pretty much. I blogged about this previously, even a few years ago.
Cash is being phased out. It’s a control mechanism. Once cash goes, the citizen is reduced to complete and utter dependence on his little plastic cards. If they are restricted or taken away, by whoever controls the system, the individual is immediately an outcast, without money, without any way (short of theft, robbery, or begging) even to access food.
When I last visited Hong Kong, in 2006, there was a regional technical problem with credit and debit cards. None worked for several days. Fortunately, I was already in hotel accommodation (the Sheraton, Kowloon) and had several thousand US dollars in cash as well, but what if a similar situation occurs, and you have no cash (because cash does not exist), and what if you are not in accommodation for whatever reason? You sleep on a park bench, and forage for whatever food you can find.
Do not imagine that the banks are some kind of unbiased arbiter or supplier of services. They may be, most of the time, but even now we see examples of people with “the wrong views” being cut off from banking services. It happened a while ago to Sam Melia, Laura Towler and Mark Collett of Patriotic Alternative. I am not talking even about the PA official bank accounts. No, I refer to the individual, personal bank accounts of those people.
You can see the way UK television drama has gone, even detective stories such as Endeavour, Grantchester etc. A kind of “we must have half the characters black, brown, other non-white, or at least gay” ethos.
Masking likely represents the most ambitious public health intervention in history.
An intervention we wanted all people: 1) to do multiple times per day 2) every single day 3) across a wide range of environments 3) with no clear end in sight
Mikhail Gorbachev, who rose to power in the Soviet Union and set in motion a series of revolutionary changes that transformed the map of Europe and ended the Cold War that had threatened the world with nuclear annihilation, has died in Moscow. He was 91. https://t.co/hYeovyISVapic.twitter.com/ExXIlukRl6
Gorbachev's foreign policy vision in his final years was not pro-Western
Gorbachev condemned NATO expansion, U.S. imperialism and Germany's hegemonic ambitions in Europe. He backed the Crimea annexation but warned against a spiral of tensions that would lead to nuclear war
Exclusive: A spy working for Canadian intelligence smuggled Shamima Begum and her two friends from Bethnal Green into Syria and Britain later conspired with Canada to cover up its role, according to explosive news claims @thetimeshttps://t.co/ewmSuvlk0a
Interesting that this alleged fact should emerge now, just as her family and friends, with other supporters, are trying to get her back to the UK. Is someone trying to provoke her assassination?
Not that I want her back in the UK. I do not want any of them here in the first place.
@rhhasdall. My main concern is to begin discussion in this country as to whether we have a national interest in prolonging and sustaining a Russian-American war in Ukraine. My own view is that we do not, but we do have strong reasons to support a peace initiative. https://t.co/bP7Oeijyai
Ian Robert Millard 